books.google.no - Iraq, the land of Hamurabi and Harun al-Rashid, has played a long and unique role in the history of human civilization. The oldest civilization known to man evolved on the shores of its twin rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. The great cities of antiquity-Uruk, Ur, Akkad, Babylon, Basra, Mawsil, and...http://books.google.no/books/about/Historical_Dictionary_of_Iraq.html?hl=no&id=RIB5qT9sGnwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHistorical Dictionary of Iraq